Generalities: Epistemological Foundations of Quantitative Research
Positivism
Natural Phenomena
Properties
Relations
Reason & Logic
Posteriori knowledge
Subjectivism
Subjective Experience
Patterns
Theories
Philosophies
Methodologies
Post-Positivism
Critical Realism
Revisable
Measurement is Imperfect
Triangulation
Prior Understanding
other theories and concepts
Postmodernism
Culture is changeable
Appreciate reality
Rational findings
Multiple epistemologies
Not objective knowledge
Criticalism
Predictable knowledge
Scientific objectivity
Change limiting social conditions
Social sciences and the humanities
Philosophical research
Interpretivism
Components of the study
Social Constructions
Group different approaches
Characteristics of the study
Characterize people